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February 10, 2005

Thanks for all the comments on my stash enhancement! It's all about being able to go to the closet and finding something I want to knit at any time. I'll admit, I did have to be creative about finding some new places to store my haul, but it's all mostly out of the way now.

I haven't mentioned either of the sweaters I'm working on in the past little while, so I thought I'd share one with you today. My Adrienne Vittadini Natasha sweater will soon be a FO. The pieces have been finished and blocked since the weekend, and last night I sat down and commenced the seaming.

I've only done the raglan seams so far, and still have the sleeves and sides to finish up. Then there will be a teeny bit of ribbing around the neck, but really I feel like I'm so close to being done with this one!

It's been a fairly smooth knit, although I had to rip back the first sleeve to fix some cabling gone awry. Of course I didn't notice it until I was holding the two of them together, admiring my work! Let's revisit the picture I had posted of the first sleeve in progress, shall we? Yup there it is, top left... the last two cables just got going the wrong way. Oh well. Really I've enjoyed this one so much that it was almost a pleasure to have a little more to do when I finally discovered the problem.

So what will I have for you to see tomorrow? Maybe a finished Natasha, maybe something else...

January 16, 2005

It's about time for me to show you all some knitting content again, n'est pas? Well, I definitely have some to show! I took photos of my progress as of Friday afternoon, when we had a little bit of sunshine for some outside shots.

First up today is my shawl collared pullover. I've finished both the front and back now, and joined the shoulders using the 3 needle bind off. Yes, I probably should have blocked the pieces first, because what looks like waist shaping in my photo is just an illusion (there is no shaping at all), but I'll deal with that soon enough. I'm a little concerned that I may run out of yarn on this project... I only have 4 skeins of the charcoal Cash Iroha left for the two sleeves. The cuffs will be done in my contrast color, but I am worried. I've already shortened the back a little, and made the front to match, in order to have 4 full skeins. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all will work out in the end.

This sleeve (now finished, but no photos of that yet) does not go with the above pullover. That would make too much sense. This is my first piece for my Adrienne Vittadini pullover (which I am hereafter referring to as Natasha, the name of the yarn I'm using, and just a cool name in general). I started this to have something to break up the monotony of the stockinette. The cables are loads of fun, although they're unfortunately not amenable to cabling without a cable needle. I'm really looking forward to finishing this sweater, but will probably put it off a bit, and deal with the other one first.

Over the weekend I've done a bit more knitting than my photos show, mostly on Sunday. Of course, I wasn't working on either of these two things... I'll have some photos and details tomorrow, but the Sunday knitting involved US1 needles, some new yarn, and a few beads...